vol VII: Notes
2015
Notes
[Sunday 7 June 2015 - Saturday 13 June 2015]
[Notebook: DB 78: Catholicism 2.0]
Sunday 7 June 2015
Monday 8 June 2015
[page 177]
Tuesday 9 June 2015
Music : superposition - layering / mixing - linearity.
The transfinite network, on the other hand, is as non-linear as possible [exponential ?], something introduced by meaning [permutation, mapping] ?
[page 178]
We can understand the whole system by understanding the generic relationship between layer n and layer n+1, exemplified by such systems as atoms and molecules or people and corporations.
The fundamental constraint on the relationship between layers us that the higher layer respect the rights of the lower, in other words the higher layer allows the lower layer to be complete and does not attempt to artificially truncate it, since that way error and breakdown lie. In other words all error modes must be dealt with if we are to prevent failure [so a society wants to have a way of dealing with al possible human behaviours].
At some point in their development people become aware of themselves in the mirror of consciousness and begin to think about their thoughts and actions. Narcissus. Not Goulburn but Bathurst - Conversation on Arts Funding. Narcissus (Mythology) - Wikipedia, Suzie Gibson
Wednesday 10 June 2015
I am the same as every other evolved organism: my history has embedded in me a program which is prepared to do whatever it takes to survive. One can imagine that through our history the critical points in this evolution are periods of drought, that is periods when the necessary inputs to life are scarce.
We have reached a point where we are capable of harvesting enough resources [from the Earth] but face two problems: the divine between wealth and poverty; and our impact on the planet.
Cybernetics / consciousness
[page 179]
CREATING : combination and permutation : boilerplating from a library of processes.
The Universe is pixellated by 4-momentum, the flow of logical process through time.
Thursday 11 June 2015
On becoming radicalized: in a failure, the system will fall back dow the layers until it finds a reliable basis, and then begin to recover from there, as life is reproduced in the atoms of previous lives.
Natural law, physical (metaphysical) symmetry. Metaphysics is everything built on the physical layer (which is a spectrum of physical layers beginning at a 'singularity', the absolute lower bound).
Work with God for more probable success.
Friday 12 June 2015
The fundamental discovery of the Enlightenment is that the truth is stronger, more interesting and more valuable than fiction. Our society is based on a number of legal and constitutional fictions, some of which, like the fictions of terra nullius and the 'divine right of kings', have turned out to be false. The fictional Catholic God is also false. Terra nullius - Wikipedia, Divine right of kings - Wikipedia
Saturday 13 June 2015
Always trying for succinct expressions of the problems I see with the world. The main one for a long time is epistemological, how can we get at the truth when so many wish to hide it?
[page 180]
The world is, like a chess position, a balance of forces that does not have an obvious solution. In my position, I have cooked up a set of ideas that I think are a quite exciting, but I am depressed by the difficulty I have in expressing my ideas clearly and in getting a hearing. The only way forward, really, is persistence, wearing my way forward a little at a time until perhaps I will make some sort of breakthrough by finding a form of words that catches people's attention.
